This day in history

1587:
An English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances is established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

1796:
Cleveland, Ohio, is founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.

1929:
Inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., make an unsuccessful mass-escape attempt.

1933:
American aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world as he returns to New York's Floyd Bennett Field after traveling for seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

1934:
Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, where he had just watched the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.”

1937:
The Senate rejects President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

1942:
The Nazis begin transporting Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.

1943:
American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton capture Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.

1946:
Jewish extremists blow up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90 people.

1975:
The House of Representatives joins the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

1983:
Samantha Smith and her parents return home to Manchester, Maine, after completing a whirlwind tour of the Soviet Union.

2004:
The 9/11 Commission issues a report saying America's leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the devastating attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but stops short of blaming President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton.